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The ‘Ego-Humankind’ Exhibition, dedicated to artist Ngo Xuan Binh (born in 1957), displays over 200 lacquer and oil paintings, accompanied by more than 100 sculptures made of bronze, stone, and wood. The exhibition is one of the events of the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022. Artist Ngo Xuan Binh. Photo: Trang Trang The largest work on display is a wooden sculpture weighing over 4.5 tons. A combination of traditional and contemporary art forms, the event started on November 18, 2022, and is expected to last until March 2023 at the Hanoi Museum. The message of the ‘new-era city’: towards beauty The exhibition aims to vividly convey a message: The Vietnamese city in the new era is the city of beauty sought by the community. Nguyen Tien Da, Director of the Hanoi Museum, said that the exhibition is designed with multiple dimensions: living space, green space, service space, socializing space, and labor organizing space. This is not merely a display of artworks bu...

Situated some 10 kilometers away from downtown Hanoi, Dong Ngac Village in Bac Tu Liem District is a 1,000-year-old “village of scholars” that has barely changed in centuries. The charming old village has attracted many local and foreign tourists, including CNN’s freelance journalist Ronan O’Connell. The beauty of time in Dong Ngac Village or today’s Dong Ngac Ward, Bac Tu Liem District, Hanoi. Photo: Huu Nghi/Dantri Below are his comments about this village in the article titled “Dong Ngac: Hanoi’s village of scholars” in the column of “Destination Hanoi” on CNN Travel. An almost intact ancient village “As Hanoi has expanded and modernized rapidly over the past 20 years, many of its oldest villages have either been erased or gentrified to the point they’ve lost their original character,” he wrote. But not this one – and this is part of what makes Dong Ngac so appealing when you travel here, according to Ronan’s suggestion. Pretty stone gates mark its borders, timewo...